Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-09-21

green: like the south wind surgn1 like q
warm ocean and the sky blue and soft and
archng away up To the great white throne.
That s one thing. To go trailing along
horses dead beat and half starved, pulling
a big wagon through sloughs up to the
axles or over frozen ruts that wiring every
bolt in the concern and every bone in Your
body, while mile after mile of dead grass
stretching out 10 the edge Of the world,
with buzzards swinging mp out Of nowhere,
more like something Internal than any de-
cent living thing: with coyotes yelping and
CRYING all night-that : another thing and
the kind that doesu't get talked about
much. Perhaps you don't remember that
item in last winters newspapers-a half
dozen lines or sn-twO families frozen in a
Texas norther, horses, dogs and all, just
as they stood.
That night we went into camp ten miles
from home There was n ravine and
plenty of brush, and the horses were
ready to drop in their tracks, and that
last ten miles was one Of the things that
couldn't he done. So we got our fires
made and our horses fed and sheltered as
well as we could and put some heart into
ourselves with buffalo steak and hot cof-
fee. and the rest Of them packed them
selves into the wagon. Some one had to
stand guard and keep the fires going, and
took the contract.
1t wasn't dark night. There was a
goOdish bit Of a moon behind the clouds,
and it made gray kind of light over every
thing We We're at the bottom OF dry
canyon that ran east and west. and the
wind did not reach us. II screeched and
hauls an1 fhrnnsvh
all there was kind of moaning roar, as
if we were at the bottom of tide as deep
as the stars are high. l got to thinking
about old times away back, OF one Sun
day night just before we were married.
had gone east a little sooner than We eX-
pectcd. and had TO wait for her things to
be finished. We went to church that
night. \ keen. crisp, still night it was,
when the sleigh runners squeaked on the
snow and the moonlight traced the shad-
ows of the elm on the white ground rs if
they had been put in black drawing The
church was warm and bright and they
hadn't taken down the Christmas greens
yet, so the air was full of the smell Of them
that spicy, haunting smell, that seems AS
If it came somehow from world before
this.
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